¿Soy yo la que sueña? La emergencia de los sueños de campo y los sueños brujos en una etnografía y una vida

In this article, I want to explore a part of the universe that opens up to the ethnographer through what I call Field dreams. How to confer entity to this seemingly irrelevant material? What new agencies come into play in field dreams, and how to be delicate enough not to ruin them in their subsequent inscription? To answer these questions, I will revisit fragments from two ethnographies I conducted in Buenos Aires in different decades: one with residents of squatted houses in the 90s and another around a recent judicial case declaring Sandra, the orangutan confined in the local zoo, as a rights-bearing subject. Field dreams can take up habitus of the people we work with, harbor a multispecies encounter, be a thinking entity that processes itself through us, or reinvent our ways of thinking and practicing our craft.